Salah Khalaf

Salah Khalaf (1933-14 January 1991), also known as Abu Iyad, was a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader and one of the founders of Fatah.

Biography
Salah Khalaf was born in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine in 1933. In 1948 he was forced to flee during the Nakba, and he met Yasser Arafat at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt while in exile. In 1959 he founded Fatah with Arafat, Khalil al-Wazir, and Farouk Kaddoumi, and from 1967 to 1970 he took part in espionage for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by Arafat. Khalaf was one of the men responsible for the 1972 Munich Massacre, as he was the leader of the Black September Organization while the "number two" of Arafat.

On 14 January 1991, Khalaf was assassinated in the suburbs of Tunis, Tunisia, where the PLO moved their base in 1982. Hamza Abu Zeid, the bodyguard of Hayel Abdul Hamid (another PLO leader who was assassinated alongside Khalaf), was really a double agent of the Abu Nidal Organization and Israel's Mossad, and both sides are blamed for the murder.